Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1937–1938
- Collector
- Location
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0463, Page 0184
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“I have lived to see a great many changes. I am now eighty seven years of age.”
Taken down from a man born in the year 1850
“I have lived to see a great many changes. I am now eighty-seven years of age. When I was in my teens I felt the hours of the day pass slowly, creeping and the hours of yesterday creep too, but, after I had reached the age of sixty, the hours, days and years commenced to race. I am still able to read, write, eat, sleep and walk six miles and when I hear music my legs refuse to keep still. Nothing lifts the Irish heart like music and dance and a smoke of tobacco thrown in.
I remember on one Easter Sunday morning over seventy seven years ago, seeing Bryan Kennedy, eating an egg at our house. I watched and wondered, how neatly he cracked the shell of the egg.(continues on next page)